Tewameter® TM Hex Goes Where no Skin Instruments Have Ever Been Before… by Courage+Khazaka

26 April 2023

Shortly after bringing the state-of-the-art TEWL probe to the market, it has already been successfully established as barrier measurement standard because nothing compares to its accuracy and reproducibility – not even in the extreme conditions of Antarctica. After the C+K instruments have already proven themselves in space between 2006 and 2018, Prof. Darlenski and his team from Sofia, Bulgaria took them in 2020 for the first time to the eternal ice.

Their study shows how exposome factors originating from the extreme surrounding environment influence skin structure and physiology and that prolonged contact to exposome factors resulted in epidermal barrier impairment and an inflammatory response, while the increased melanin content may be a defensive mechanism of adaptation*.

*see the full study here: https://www.jle.com/en/revues/ejd/edocs/prolonged_but_not_short_exposure_to_the_climate_in_antarctica_is_associated_with_increased_skin_barrier_permeability_erythema_and_pigmentation_323002/article.phtml

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